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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The nature of Kierkegaard's political legacy is complicated by the religious character of his writings. Exploring Kierkegaard's relevancy for this political-theological moment, this volume offers trans-disciplinary and multi-religious perspectives on Kierkegaard studies and political theology. Privileging...
Karl Barth's Infralapsarian Theology
Origins and Development, 1920-1953
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Theologians have long assumed that Karl Barth's doctrine of election is supralapsarian. Challenging decades of scholarship, Shao Kai Tseng argues that despite Barth's stated favor of supralapsarianism, his mature lapsarian theology is complex and dialectical, critically reappropriating both supra-...
Sharing Peace
Mennonites and Catholics in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Sharing Peace brings together leading Mennonite and Catholic theologians and ecclesial leaders to reflect on the recent, first-ever international dialogue between the Mennonite World Conference and the Vatican. The search for a shared reading of history, theology of the church and its sacraments or...
Approaching the World’s Religions, Volume 2
An Evangelical Theology of Religions
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Evangelical theology strives to be evangelical, conservative, and contemporary. In a world in which everyone is "Christian," evangelical theology provides a balanced position between fundamentalism and liberalism. While theological debates within the family will occur, to be evangelical...
A Celebration of Living Theology
A Festschrift in Honour of Andrew Louth
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This volume brings together an international range of world-class scholars to engage with Andrew Louth's work and its influence on modern Theology. Andrew Louth is well known and influential in the English-speaking circles but also in the non-English Orthodox world, especially across Eastern Europe....
by Ralph S. Werrell
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
William Tyndale is one of the most important of the early reformers, and particularly through his translation of the New Testament, has had a formative influence on the development of the English language and religious thought. The sources of his theology are, however, not immediately clear, and historians...
Trauma-Sensitive Theology
Thinking Theologically in the Era of Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
The intention of Trauma Sensitive Theology is to help theologians, professors, clergy, spiritual care givers, and therapists speak well of God and faith without further wounding survivors of trauma. It explores the nature of traumatic exposure, response, processing, and recovery and its impact on...
by Keith Grant
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
An exploration of the pastoral theology of Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) suggests that evangelical renewal did not only take place alongside the local church - missions, itinerancy, voluntary societies - but also within the congregation as the central tasks of dissenting pastoral ministry became, in the...
Opting for the Margins
Postmodernity and Liberation in Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
Ideas like the "preferential option for the poor"-arguing that people marginalized by the economy have a claim to "special consideration"-have been among the most significant insights in twentieth-century Christian theology. Arising out of various theologies of liberation, options for the poor and...
The Promise of Martin Luther's Political Theology
Freeing Luther from the Modern Political Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Michael Laffin demonstrates the promise of Martin Luther's thought for contemporary political theology by showing how Luther has been over-determined in standard genealogies of modernity which frequently deafen us to his unique contribution.
Laffin argues that contemporary theologians have...
Envisioning the Good Life
Essays on God, Christ, and Human Flourishing in Honor of Miroslav Volf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Who is God? What is God's relation to the world? How is God disposed towards us? What does God ask of us? These questions are not mere intellectual puzzles. They matter for us. A disinterested theology would be no theology at all, for we are fundamentally, at our very core, invested in God. God is...
Sex Difference in Christian Theology
Male, Female, and Intersex in the Image of God
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
How different are men and women? When does it matter to us -- or to God? Are male and female the only two options? In Sex Difference in Christian Theology Megan DeFranza explores such questions in light of the Bible, theology, and science.
Many Christians, entrenched in culture wars over sexual...
Messianic Political Theology and Diaspora Ethics
Essays in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Political theology as a normative discourse has been controversial not only for secular political philosophers who are especially suspicious of messianic claims but also for Jewish and Christian thinkers who differ widely on its meaning. These essays mount an argument for a "Messianic Political...
Advancing Trinitarian Theology
Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Throughout the last century theologians gave great attention to the doctrine of the Trinity, and succeeded in restoring it to a central place in Christian thought. But as they highlighted the novelty of the revolutionary new trinitarianism, a number of generalizations and simplifications crept into...